Teacher Resources for Instructional Planning


Grade 2, Language Arts Language Mechanics: Distinguish correct capitalization - pronoun I, the first word of sentences, and proper nouns (titles of people/ months of the year/ days of the week/ holidays) (COS18/ SAT10)

Lesson Plans: Invitation to Learn Capitalization The students will be introduced to recognizing and editing words that begin with a capital letter using a teacher-selected article. Get Writing With "Weekend News!" Each Monday, students are asked to write about their weekend. They apply what they already know about writing and what has been taught to them through minilessons. They can use temporary or invented spelling for words they do not know how to spell, but should correctly spell words that they know. Daily Edit Sentences/Journal Writing Students will correct a given sentence each day with capitalization, punctuation, spelling, spacing, and grammar errors - student handout, student editing.

Resources: Rags to Riches: Capitalization/punctuation interactive quiz. Students will identify the correct way to write each sentence. Power Proofreading: Cute interactive practice for different types of language arts skills. Capitalization Review: Create your own capitalization worksheets on this site. Capitals: Teaching Capitalization Rules: Here you'll find lyrics to a song about capitalization. Listen to a clip of the song or purchase the CD. Suggestions for English Language Learners: (E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding) (E/B) Students copy sentences from a poem or other pre-printed text. (D) Students correct conventional mechanics in journal writing such as capitalize proper nouns, titles and first word in a sentence.
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